恋爱公寓

故事发生在山西晋中地区。小飞娥（丁是娥 饰）嫁人前，是十里八村一枝花，暗地里和保安（王铭道 饰）偷偷相爱，保安相赠一枚罗汉钱私订百年秦晋。小飞娥父母哪容女儿私下寻夫，硬逼她嫁给邻村张木匠（解洪元 饰）。二十年过去了，小飞娥始终生活在对保安的思念和邻人的闲言碎雨中。女儿艾艾（筱爱琴 饰）眨眼到了谈婚论嫁年龄，同村后生李小晚（刘正道 饰）相中艾艾，也送了一枚意寓订情的罗汉钱。两人的相爱很快遭到村里人竭力反对，小飞娥更是担心女儿走上自己曾经的老路。张木匠面对村里人对他的指责，羞愧难当，决意将艾艾嫁给......

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

来自廷布（不丹首都）：宗萨蒋扬钦哲仁波切的第三部故事片注定要是全然不同的。不同于它的前两部电影——《高山上的世界杯》（The Cup）和《旅行家与魔术师》(Travellers and Magicians)——VARA，在梵语中意为恩赐或护佑，本片将会有一套专业演员阵容，其中有些还是宝莱坞的著名影星。以印度著名诗人和小说家Sunil Gan-gopadhyay的小说《血与泪》（Blood and Tears）为蓝本，这部电影将会是印度式的。部分可能参演的主演包括Imran Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Shahana Goswami, Mamatha Bhukya, 以及Padmapriya Janakiraman。片子在斯里兰卡或者南印度拍摄。VARA发掘理解、慈悲、牺牲、无我等在真实生活中的典范。它赞颂女性的坚韧，挖掘种姓制度和信仰的层次体系。【Vara】讲的是一位年轻貌美的印度教寺庙舞者和一位低种姓的雕刻家相恋……冒着两个人的生命危险，她秘密答应成为雕塑家的模特……在一个偏远的村庄，女孩儿为了保护自己未出生的孩子不惜一切代价……电影中一些村民会卷入纠缠的恋情和社会期望，整部片子也充满了印度传统舞蹈的场面。以他一贯的幽默感，仁波切说，由于使用一个偏僻的语言制作，片子或许会变得无聊以及在商业上失败。但是，他强调Vara是与众不同的。“我非常紧张，因为它是与众不同的，”他说。Vara的主题包涵了很多复杂的议题，诸如种姓制度，婆罗多舞蹈——一种极为玄奥、深邃、广大和无限的灵性舞蹈。演员将不会是他的学生或者与他有关系的人，而是宝莱坞的演员或者一些独立演员。他计划很快就在孟买会见演员们。“所有这些将会使这部电影让我紧张不堪，我不能再使用『仁波切的专政』了，”他笑着说。由于一直是婆罗门舞蹈和卡纳塔克音乐（印度音乐传统来自古老的「婆摩吠陀」（Sama Vedas）经）以及胜天（Jaya Deva）的《牧童歌（Gita Govinda）》的粉丝，仁波切此番确实准备接受挑战了。

单身一族的阿泽（方力申 饰）、阿犬（敖犬 饰）和小肥（小肥 饰）生活在香港不同的角落，人人都想尽快结束光棍生活。阿泽自诩“有梦青年”，日夜打着两份工，薪水微薄，伹他乐此不疲。阿泽自认品味高雅，心中的女神是靓模依依（刘羽琦 饰），妹妹笑他不自量力，伹良好的心态加之乐观的性格使阿泽不会气馁，他仍视依依为梦中情人。阿犬是阿泽的死党，同时也是个挂在网上的“全职宅男”，他们全族清一色男性，就连家里养的狗都是公的，伹这并不妨碍阿犬在网上专门诊疗他人婚姻爱情的疑难杂症。 但生活中的阿犬是个胆小懦弱的人，连狗都敢欺负他……